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The overall album drowns you in a meditative tantric soundscape consisting of Alexey Tegin’s deep gutteral vocal vibrations (rgyud-skad) or ‘tantric voice‘ and Lorenzo Abattoir’s dark ambient field recordings and sound effects. Organic sounds are produced by bells, gongs, chimes and traditional hand-made instruments created from human bone and animal remains, resonating a background ambience of calm and prayer.

This very intimate and powerful recording showcases the soul wrenching effects that take hold and the artists ability to shake the foundations of the human subconscious through ritualistic and meditative performance.

During August 2014 Italian noise maker & HNW artists
Lorenzo Abattoir went on his first US tour taking in a the west coast of
the country.

"What initially inspired the tour was the desire to share a
stage with some of the projects that have influenced, throughout the
years, my idea of what noise is, while also learning new techniques from
the best noise pioneers of the US scene. For experimentation’s sake, I
decided to bring only the most minimal of set-ups, leaving ample space
for improvisation with found objects on each location, amplified by
means of a contact mic and using each location’s unique acoustic
features..."

"According to the linear notes Tupilak is "an assembly of various objects
fabricated by shamanism for ritualistic chants" and this could be an
hint that this relase deals with a spiritual view of sound. The more
evident aspect unifying the tracks is the methodic use of the resonances
of the instruments so leaving the doubt if there's an electronic manipulation or it's the use of extended tecniques.The
initial sharp notes of "Umlat" start this release with a drone,
apparently from didgeridoo, that set the atmosphere of track upon
metallic resonances. The opening sax of "Thecomposition" is the
infrastructure for a complex texture made out of field recordings,
string instruments and bells and gradually fades out to let a cello
close the track. The resonances of the percussions of "Unhz" construct a
piece of an impressive tension drowned in an almost quiet background
that develops in an almost static drone. "Sintensi Aborigena" is on a
didgeridoo, or at least it sounds like, dialoguing with the percussions,
in the first part, the field recordings, in the second part, and, at
last, it endschanging his timbre, as with extended tecnique.
"Granular Rite" ends this release with the juxtaposition of slowly
changing notes from string instruments upon a quietsoundscape, generating a dialogue between a quiet background and a menacing foreground.This
italian collective has released an amazing album full of demanding
music for courious ears and lies in the threshold between mimimal,
experimental and ritual music. Highly Recommended." Chain D.L.K. http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=8378

Description / influences:

"Lorenzo Abattoir is an italian noise artist active since 2008. He has worked and played with various european and american sound artists.In 2009 Lorenzo founded the "Mare di Dirac" project, an italian collective based on field recording / electroacoustic instruments & experiments with microsounds; he recorded in various kind if natural environment with the use of different types of acoustic reverbaration. Lorenzo Abattoir started in 2013 an experimental collaboration with Hermann Koop called "Psicopompo", the german composer of Jorg Buttgereit's movie soundtracks: "Necromantic" & "Dertodesking" ; his musical influences comes mainly by particular movies & visual art"